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Follow the money. Most people don't have a stable financial base established at 30, and even fewer are there at 25. These people aren't any help to the fundraising machines of the politicians, so they don't exist in their eyes.

Likewise, championing Free College isn't going to make an 60 year old vote for you -- the older people will be asking "Will my SS check be there in five years if these brats get free college?"

"It's not hard to imagine what a youth-oriented agenda might include: an end to the War on Drugs, or at least the repeal of mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and greater emphasis on treatment over punishment; free college education for everyone maintaining a B average or better, plus greater investment in literacy, arts education and alternative ways of earning a high school diploma; a ban on racial profiling; real sex education in the schools and an end to the hypocritical prudery that counsels "just say no" and condemns many uninformed young people to AIDS and other STDs; a one-year universal national service obligation for 18 to 24-year-olds; funding individual trust accounts of between $1,000 and $10,000 (depending on family means) created at birth and drawable after the completion of national service; political reforms that open up the system to more diverse voices, like public financing of races and instant-runoff voting; and lowering the voting age to 16, the same age where most states will treat a minor as an adult for the purposes of criminal prosecutions.

Add some visionary goals to the mix -- reverse global warming within 10 years, stop the AIDS epidemic in its tracks -- and there's no doubt that younger Americans would stand up and pay attention."

So basically "give all your money and power to the government and we'll solve all your problems." That is the way to appeal to youth? Unfortunately, perhaps it is for some, but that is why we don't allow such manifest immaturity participate in elections (at least when they're below 18.) People who are dependent on their parents for support and problem solving are easily duped into perceiving the government in the same way. A dangerous mistake.